Re: ROX-Session 0.30

"Robert E. Beaudoin" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 03/18/10 15:29, Stephen Watson wrote:
> > After upgrading to SuSE 11.2 the XXMLRPC in ROX-Session broke.  I
haven't
> > worked out why (ClientCall seems to never return), but I have a
workaround.
> > 
> > The current SVN version and snapshot at
> > http://rox.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ROX-Session.tgz use ROX-Lib 2.0.5
to do
> > the interprocess communication.  Since this defaults to DBus it works.
> > 
> > On a slightly related point, what is the minimum version of Python that
we
> > are requiring these days?  Can I assume 2.4 or later, or are people
still
> > using 2.3?
> > 
> 
> Not sure if this is related, but recently I've started seeing a problem
> in ROX-Session:  the "session settings" and "logout" buttons no longer
> work.  Press them and nothing happens, except that after pressing them
> the "cancel" button also stops working.  (If the cancel button is
> pressed before the others it cancels the ROX-Session dialog.)  If I run
> /usr/lib/rox/ROX-Session/AppRun from a terminal, press "session
> settings", then kill the (quiescent) app with control-c, the backtrace
> indicates that the app is in the get_response method of a ClientCall
> object, waiting in a gtk main loop (xxmlrpc.py, line 193).   

That's the problem I saw.

> I'm running
> ROX-Session 0.30 (gentoo package version 0.30-r4), rox-lib 2.0.6, and
> rox-filer 2.10, on amd64 gentoo linux 2.6.31-gentoo-r10.

Do you know your Python and PyGTK versions?

> To the list:  Does this sound like the same problem?  Should I supply
> any further information?  To Stephen:  Is your workaround to downgrade
> to rox lib 2.0.5?

No it's the modified ROX-Session with ROX-Lib at least 2.0.5.  Version 2.0.6
will be fine.

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